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DEN National Institute Day One

July 21, 2008 |  Tagged |

I did not manage to live blog because we were doing a “hands on project” making a movie for our regional DEN group to the “I Love the Mountains” song that is being used on the new Discovery Channel video. After listening to the song over, and over, it is pretty much stuck in my head. We (the Western States) won the contest with this awesome video.

The big issue for me, is that is seems like there are people at a variety of levels at this institute from intermediate to advanced knowledge of technology education. I’m in the later group. Most of the scheduled sessions are about tools I already know how use. What I’m going to do is a larger project on cybersafety, and developing a plan for the PD sessions that I will be doing in August. I’m also going to do a model unit plan about a use of Discovery Streaming that led to kids learning about linear equations and doing a video about them in stop action.

The best part, as always, is meeting in small groups with folks, and sharing what we know, want to know and what we’re doing. I’m going to be posting video interviews on my tumblog: http://mizmercer.edublogs.org.


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